Evolutionary biology

Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist is written by Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary biologist and Christian. The purpose of this book is how to understand the conflict between science and Christian faith. Roughgarden wants to explain what evolutionary biology is and is not as well as what the Bible says. She believes that there is a relationship between the Bible and evolutionary biology and she investigates this relationship. The first few chapters discuss facts of evolutionary biology, the middle chapters present the explanation of those facts by evolutionary biology, and the last chapters focus on the limitations to evolutionary biology. She clarifies what is established in evolutionary biology and indicates…

In biology “Evolution” is defined as the change in genetic in a population over a period of time, through several generations. Looking at the microscopic scale, evolution meant the mutation in the alleles of a certain genes are passed on to the next and next generations, and over the long period of time, these changes will “culminate in new forms … provides an explanation for the origins of morphological diversity, adaptation, and natural selection” (Bergman). As far as, in Stearns et al…

There is a lot of genetic variation in humans the reason for this is because of four processes of evolution namely mutations, gene flow, gene drift and natural selection. Changes happening without a certain method or at random in a genetic code can be defined as mutations this brings change in the ratio of a specific form in a gene allele to the total numbers of forms in a specific population. Mutations often develop into evolutionary change if they can be found in a person’s sex cells because…

likes when genes for formerly existing phenotypical features are conserved in DNA, and then these become expressed through a mutation that either knock out the overriding genes for the new traits or make the old traits override the new one. The Genes do not determine what the organism is, but with atavism, they can sometimes serve as reminders of our evolutionary past. However, there are disadvantages to atavism…

infrastructure that the country, will be in the future with the equivalent of dozens of hurricane Katrina (Kozol, 2008). For over twenty years, Americans sought inspiration in the Asian model of development. It is time to take a second look. For all memes are the characteristics of any process of evolution: fertility (some ideas are particularly effective), longevity (persist for a long time) and replication fidelity (traditional conservatism, especially taught as part of early childhood…

A new poll conducted by Ipsos surveyed twenty-four countries and found that 41% of respondents identified themselves as "evolutionists" and 28% as "creationists," with 31% indicating that they "simply don 't know what to believe.” In today’s world, evolution is highly regarded as the way of thinking by individuals, due to the logic presented through many theories and fragmented evidence. Of these, darwinism and neo-darwinism are two major theories in which evolutionists view the beginning of…

Evolution is taught within elementary schools and in high school biology classes, but religion is not taught in the classroom setting. The concept of teaching evolution and religion in schools has been brought to the courtroom a numerous amount of times. Epperson vs. Arkansas in 1968 was one of the first cases to go to court. Epperson argued that by not teaching religion and only teaching the theory of evolution we are limiting the students understand of the different theories within the world…

Why do we view certain things as beautiful? According to Glenn Wilson “standards of beauty cannot be just cultural artifacts biological factors (evolved instincts) must be at play.” In his article “Standards of Beauty Are Determined by Evolutionary Biology”, he writes about how we as humans have evolved in order to attract mates. He wrote that sex is one of mankind’s most primitive needs. In order to find a partner Wilson believes humans look the way they do because of the primitive need to…

Galapagos is a science fiction-fantasy story set in a third person narrative that was written by the author Kurt Vonnegut. Most of the story is set in the hotel of El Dorado in Ecuador and is spent introducing the characters of the story. The main characters are Mary Hepburn a widow from America who was a biology teacher at Ilium High School recently laid off from her job and mourning the death of her late husband Roy Hepburn who died of a brain tumor that slowly robbed him of his judgment and…

tomato, tiger, etc.…That common ancestor produced descendants, and those descendants produced their own descendants and modification takes place for each generation of descendant eventually leading to the wide variety of Earth’s lifeforms we have today. Common descent with modification occurs due to mechanisms of evolutionary change. A mechanism of evolutionary change requires for the process to affect the allele, gene variant, frequency. Natural selection is one of these mechanisms. The process…